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Amsterdam manages to have intersections with cars, trams, bicycles, and pedestrians signaled separately and it’s working out pretty well!

First paragraph of the article:

"As many have said GPUs are so fast because they are so efficient for matrix multiplication and convolution, but nobody gave a real explanation for why this is so. The real reason for this is memory bandwidth and not necessarily parallelism."

Sorry but please don't take Eigen (https://eigen.tuxfamily.org) away from me. Can't speak for others, but the scientific code I work on would become unreadable like that.

What do you mean when you say woke? (You specifically)

I think the problem exists: the externalities of the approach to laptops you're describing are very bad. Framework is trying to promote the three R's to help combat this. Reduce, reuse, and recycle.

I think most folks here are advocating for MacBooks, which you absolutely could not build or buy an equivalent of in the 1000$ range. Desktops are a different class of hardware altogether.

I agree up to the last point. You can catch panics at the thread level right? I mean, more generally, what is Erlang implemented in?

I think we can all agree that maximizing profit is a cause, while also acknowledging that the situation is not ideal. There are many solutions to this self-imposed problem, like standardizing the battery interfaces.

I agree most company's have no incentive to do that. I think those incentives should be put in place though.

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Intact is a small R&D technology company. We are supported by federal research grants, software licensing and products, as well as industry partners. We value both the exploration of ideas as well as the construction of solid foundations for future endeavors.

We're looking for software engineers interested in geometry, materials, and simulation. If you have experience with mechanical engineering, computational physics and mathematics, FEA, HPC, computational geometry, etc, consider reaching out! We are always looking for candidates who are excited about pushing the state of art in modeling and simulation.

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[https://intact.design/](https://intact.design/)

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Is that a fact or an intuition?

I don't think looking at hacker news as a hive mind is a good idea tbh.

I'm on the side of those unionizing. Work conditions don't need to be unsafe for folks to unionize, and I'm fairly confident in saying that the vast majority of folks everywhere (in tech anyway) are paid an unfairly low amount for the value they generate.

Any more details you can share? Do you work on weapon systems?

Unfortunately, the thread affinity api on m1 doesn't work that way, at least based on what I've been able to understand by reading here: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/703361 and more specifically this linked source file: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/bb611c8f...

I agree with your other points though!

On the whole it's been good.

I work on scientific software, so the biggest technical issue I face day-to-day is that OpenMP based threading seems almost fundamentally incompatible with M1.

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/674456

The summary of the issue is that OpenMP threaded code typically assumes that a) processors are symmetric and b) there isn't a penalty for threads yielding.

On M1 / macOS, what happens is that during the first OpenMP for loop, the performance cores finish much faster, their threads yield, and then they are forever scheduled on the efficiency cores which is doubly bad since they're not as fast and now have too many threads trying to run on them. As far as I can tell (from the linked thread and similar) there is not an API for pinning threads to a certain core type.

I made this demo project a while back, you might find it useful:

https://github.com/SallySoul/regexc

What would be the advantage over version controlled shell scripts?

You can retrofit gps control systems onto older machines.

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Do that through taxation. I thought trickle down economics had been broadly repudiated.

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I don’t think he is.

America's history has a continuous component of oppression. At no point since the founding of the country have all folk present on this land been equal and free. Pretending that past (and current) atrocities didn't happen, and ignoring whom they targeted, means that the inequalities they created will linger.

Even today, COVID 19 affects Black and Latino folks at greater rates. That is a real, physical, manifestation of racial injustice. Ignoring that means ignoring structural problems in America.

Because race has been built into the fabric of our society. If we don't acknowledge that, then racial injustice will continue to propagate through time un-impeded.

I agree and I'm sorry that the empathy needed to understand is sorely lacking here. Lives over property always.

Ilya Prigogine won a Nobel prize working on that very issue!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissipative_system

Alogorithms like what you are describing (minus the learning part) are a very active area of research, its quite exciting! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology_optimization

Maybe. Maybe not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropic_gravity

I agree! I think this need really shines at universities where housing hasn't kept up with enrollment, so common areas are converted to living space, living space becomes more crowded, etc. Squeezes students out of a lot other spaces they might have otherwise used for working, collaborative or otherwise.

While I wouldn't have asked for hacker news comments to turn into this genre: this is an underrated comment.